Spring wheel



L. MARK ET AL SPRING WHEEL Filed Oct. 28, 1922 i by means of suitable bolts 8, for the purposey Patented June 5, 1923i U Ni'i s inertia *f [Louis Maairnivn Para Brama,v or `ignari-iam), oaneoiv." g ff sparire WHEEL.

Applicant@ aiea @citeer 2s, 19,22.k `seria-i 5eme?. i f l T0 all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that we, Louis-Mean and PETE BIALY, citizens of the United States, residing at Portland, county of Multnomah, State of Oregon, have jointly invented certain new and useful Improvements in Spring vWheels, of which the following is a specification. f

Our invention is an improvement upon the device disclosed by us in Patent No. 1,40*@

669, of Feb. 21, 1922,r` the object being to provide a device similar `to that disclosed in said patent with improved means of at- Fig. 3 is a fragmentary sectional elevation thereof upon the same scale as Fig.,2.

Fig. 4 is a perspective detail of the retaining thimble.

The hub 5 of our wheel is composed of a body having substantially radial pockets 6 opening upon one face of the hub and also upon the peripheral surface thereof, each of said pockets being adapted in form to receive the inner end of one of the spring spokes.

An annular ring 7 is secured to that face of the hub 5 upon which the pockets 6 open Y of securing the spokes in their respective pockets 6. v

Each spoke is composed of a flat spring` member 9 curved vaway from the peripheral surface of the hub, and having its outer end curved back towards the hub, and adapted to rest upon the outwardly curved por- `the felloe, as shown inFigs. 2 and 3.

onV one `inember 9, the inwardly curved end of the adjacent member 9, andthe respective member 10, as shown in Figs. 1 and`2.

Each member 9 is also reinforced upon its convex side by a spring member 18.

Where the spring members 9, 10,11 'and 13 are disposed within their respective pockl ets 6 said members are curved, and the pockets are formed t'osuit such curves, vas shown in detail in Fig. 2.

To secure the spokes to the felloe of the wheel we provide thimbles 14 imbedded in the felloe 15, land having a countersunk' flange 16 in the outer peripheral surface of A suitable bolt 17 is passed through the respective spoke and threaded into the inner end of one of said thimbles.

-An innerfriin 19 is provided for the felloe,`

and vat the bearing point of eacli spoke thereon said ring is indented to provide a raised tapered counterbore being ,oppositely diof the axle 21, the combined tapers of the washer 23 causing it to grasp both the hub 5 and the axle 21 when thus pressed into place by the nut` 24. y

Our invention may be made of any' size,

and constructed of any materials deemed convenient and suitable for a device of this character, and while we have illustrated and` described a form of construction and arrangement of parts found desirable ineinaterializing our invention, we wish to in-v ybe considered to come within the scope and purview of our invention as definedin `the appended claim.

Having disclosed our invention so thaty f y others may be enabled to construct and to use the same, what we claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent is:

In a wheel: a hub having pockets therein; a felloe; an annular ring reinforcing said felloe within said felloe; outwardly curved `spring spokes, each mounted within one. of the pockets of said hub, each` spoke having an inwardly Curved end resting upon'the" outwardly cuved portion Q the adj acent spoke; a, thimb-le mounted within said felloe respective to each of said spokes; a raised seat upon said annular ring for each of said spokes; and a holtoreeel of said spokes, said bolt passing through the spoke and its raised seat upon said annular ring and being threaded into one of seid thmbles.

In witness whereof we claim the fore- Oregon, this 17th day of Witnesses:

L. J. ROBINSON, C. F. BLAKE.

Oct. 1922. Y LOUIS MARK. PETE BIALY. 

